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  • The Monroe Doctrine

    Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America

    de Jay Sexton ...
    A Concise History of the (In)Famous Doctrine that Gave Rise to the American EmpirePresident James Monroe's 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to European colonization in the Western Hemisphere became the cornerstone of nineteenth-century American statecraft. Monroe's message proclaimed anticolonial principles, yet it rapidly became the myth and means for subsequent generations of ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • A Nation Forged by Crisis

    A New American History

    de Jay Sexton ...
    A concise new history of the United States revealing that crises -- not unlike those of the present day -- have determined our nation's course from the start**In A Nation Forged by Crisis, historian Jay Sexton contends that our national narrative is not one of halting yet inevitable progress, but of repeated disruptions brought about by shifts in the international system. Sexton shows that the ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 2, 1820–1900

    Edición de Kristin Hoganson, Jay Sexton ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of America and the World
    The second volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States rose to great power status in the nineteenth century and how the rest of the world has shaped the United States. Mixing top-down and bottom-up perspectives, insider and outsider views, cultural, social, political, military, environmental, legal, technological, and other veins of analysis, it places ... Leer más

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  • Crossing Empires

    Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain

    Edición de Kristin L. Hoganson, Jay Sexton ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context. They draw attention to the breadth of U.S. entanglements with other empires to illuminate the scope and nature of American global power as it reached from the Bering Sea to Australia and East Africa to the Caribbean. ... Leer más

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  • Empire's Twin

    U.S. Anti-imperialism from the Founding Era to the Age of Terrorism

    Edición de Ian Tyrrell, Jay Sexton ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    Across the course of American history, imperialism and anti-imperialism have been awkwardly paired as influences on the politics, culture, and diplomacy of the United States. The Declaration of Independence, after all, is an anti-imperial document, cataloguing the sins of the metropolitan government against the colonies. With the Revolution, and again in 1812, the nation stood against the most ... Leer más

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  • Connections after Colonialism

    Europe and Latin America in the 1820s

    Series series Atlantic Crossings
    Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s.In the Atlantic World, the 1820s was a decade marked by the rupture of colonial relations, the independence of Latin America, and the ever-widening chasm between the Old World and the New. Connections ... Leer más

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  • The Global Lincoln

    Edición de Richard Carwardine, Jay Sexton ...
    Perhaps more than any other American, Abraham Lincoln has become a global figure, one who spoke--and continues to speak--to people across the world. Karl Marx judged Lincoln "the single-minded son of the working class"; Tolstoy reported his fame in the Caucasus; Tomas Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia, drew strength as "the Lincoln of Central Europe"; racially-mixed, republican ... Leer más

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  • The Global Lincoln

    Edición de Richard Carwardine, Jay Sexton ...
    Perhaps more than any other American, Abraham Lincoln has become a global figure, one who spoke--and continues to speak--to people across the world. Karl Marx judged Lincoln "the single-minded son of the working class"; Tolstoy reported his fame in the Caucasus; Tomas Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia, drew strength as "the Lincoln of Central Europe"; racially-mixed, republican ... Leer más

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    A Nation Forged by Crisis

    A New American History

    de Jay Sexton ...
    Narrado por Graham Corrigan ...

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    7 hora 9 minutos

    A concise new history of the United States revealing that crises -- not unlike those of the present day -- have determined our nation's course from the start**In A Nation Forged by Crisis, historian Jay Sexton contends that our national narrative is not one of halting yet inevitable progress, but of repeated disruptions brought about by shifts in the international system. Sexton shows that the ... Leer más

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  • The Formation of Christendom

    de Judith Herrin ...
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    A groundbreaking history of how the Christian “West” emerged from the ancient Mediterranean worldIn this acclaimed history of Early Christendom, Judith Herrin shows how—from the sack of Rome in 410 to the coronation of Charlemagne in 800—the Christian “West” grew out of an ancient Mediterranean world divided between the Roman west, the Byzantine east, and the Muslim south. Demonstrating that ... Leer más

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  • This America

    The Case for the Nation

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